The failure of the counter-offensive will lead to total failure. Give a great defeat to the whole situation or the whole chess game. The rhythm of the original deployment plan was completely disrupted. Here are a few examples.
In the battle of the Southern Song Dynasty, it seems that the peace talks failed. Some hawkish ministers in the Southern Song Dynasty urged them to take the initiative to use the internal contradictions of the Jin Dynasty to reverse the unfavorable situation. Zhao Gou felt reasonable after hearing this, but the lower reaches of the Yangtze River finally settled down. If there is another war, it will obviously affect Lin 'an, the provincial capital next to Jianghuai. Therefore, in the view of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, the counterattack can be fought, but it must not be chosen near the capital.
At that time, Zhang Jun of Steven Song understood Zhao Gou's psychology. Zhang Jun was appreciated by Zhao Gou because he had just put down a small-scale internal military rebellion. For your future career. Zhang volunteered to direct the counterattack. He believes that there are a lot of main forces in the northwest battlefield, and the Jin people are unstable there. It will be cheaper if they launch a counterattack in the northwest. And most importantly, the northwest inland is far away from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, even if it is not dominant, it will not affect the security of the capital.
After listening to his ideas and reports, Zhao Gou agreed with him very much, so he was awarded the post of ambassador for the disposal of Fu Xuan in Sichuan, Shaanxi and asked him to mobilize Song Jun in Shaanxi to act cheaply. Zhang Jun be elated, thank you immediately after taking office.
Zhang Jun despised his opponent.
At that time, the Southern Song people in Shaanxi also supported Song Jun's military action. Zhang Jun came and was welcomed by many local elites. After Zhang Jun came to power, he sent people to investigate the movement of 8 Jin J and sent troops. Soon, at the beginning of 1 130, Zhang Jun assembled a huge field army of 70,000 cavalry and 200,000 infantry. As for the non-combatants responsible for logistics support, the materials raised by Guanzhong local government and elders are countless, and the scale far exceeds that of previous battles.
Look at his many soldiers and plenty of food and grass. Zhang Jun, eager to make contributions, decided to show his talents. Just then, the spies came back to report that Shaanxi's 8 Jin Army had only one general, Lou Shi, with more than 10,000 people, and its strength was thin. It is stationed in the north of Fuping, Shaanxi, and the Jin Dynasty reinforcements have not yet arrived. Zhang Jun became more and more excited and decided to destroy Lou Shi by himself. Then attract more nomads from the main battle, to ease the pressure of Lin' an.
However, just as Zhang Jun was full of ambition to attack 8 jin j, his subordinate, Shaanxi Qu Duan, raised objections. He believes that the enemy is unknown, although there are many Song Jun, but the quality is uneven, so it is not appropriate to attack rashly. Zhang Jun naturally couldn't stand the different opinions of pouring cold water on his head, so he first fired Qu Duan, and other officers were afraid to speak.
In order to surround Lou Shi's troops, Zhang Jun ordered the strikers to occupy Fuping, a traffic hub in Shaanxi, and then spread it out slowly. Fuping, located in today's central Shaanxi Province, connects the northern Shaanxi Plateau and the Guanzhong Plain. The mountains are vertical and horizontal, the terrain is complex, and it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. If you occupy Fuping, you can enter the desert in the north, cross Shaanxi in the east, connect Ganning in the west and embrace Weinan agricultural production area in the south. Zhang Jun saw the value of Fuping in these aspects, so he couldn't wait to occupy this place.
Song Jun's action has attracted the attention of Lou. At his request, Jin Wushu led 20,000 cavalry from Huaibei to Li Qian, Shaanxi Province, which enhanced Lou Shi's fighting capacity. However, Zhang Jun still knew nothing about the growth of 8 jin j..
Relying on his great strength, he ordered the main forces to gather in low-lying areas. Some men thought that the plain terrain was difficult to resist the charge of the 8 Jin Army cavalry group, and they should move to a higher place, but Zhang Jun refused. Zhang thinks that his strong bow and crossbow is enough to resist, and both sides of the barracks are reeds, so 8 jin j cavalry can not pass at all, so he doesn't care. In order to increase the confidence of his men, Zhang also sent people to Loushi to make an appointment with him for a decisive battle.